ChatGPT now turns recording into tasks

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Today we have:

🎧 ChatGPT Record Mode Turns Meetings Into Actionable Memory

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🧬 OpenAI Preps for AI’s Biological Threat Frontier

🏆 Tools and Shifts You Cannot Miss

🎧 ChatGPT Record Mode Turns Meetings Into Actionable Memory

OpenAI’s new Record Mode brings real-time transcription and summarization to ChatGPT, allowing users to turn meetings, voice notes, and brainstorms into structured, reusable outputs. Available on macOS for Enterprise, Edu, Team, and Pro workspaces, it creates canvases you can reference across chat.

The Shift:

1. Voice-to-Canvas in Minutes - Users can record up to 120 minutes of live audio with real-time transcription. Once finished, ChatGPT auto-generates a structured canvas with summaries, which can be edited or turned into plans, emails, or code.

2. Persistent Memory via “Reference History” - With reference mode enabled, ChatGPT can pull insights from previous recordings and summaries, allowing you to ask follow-ups like “What was the decision in Monday’s sync?” and get accurate answers.

3. Access, Control & Privacy - Record Mode is currently available for select workspaces on macOS and is disabled by default for Enterprise and Edu teams. Admins can enable/disable it and all content adheres to existing retention and compliance policies. Importantly, audio is not used to train models, and transcripts are excluded from training.

4. Multi-Speaker & Multilingual Support - Record Mode supports multiple speakers and recognizes non-English input, though accuracy is highest in English. You can pause/resume freely during sessions and even upload external voice notes for summarization. 

ChatGPT Record shifts audio from fleeting to functional, bridging meetings and memory into one system. Brands and teams no longer need manual notes or separate apps to capture insights.

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🧬 OpenAI Preps for AI’s Biological Threat Frontier

OpenAI just revealed new safety systems designed to prevent misuse of future models capable of aiding in bioweapon creation, as its current models inch closer to triggering “high-risk” biological capability thresholds under its Preparedness Framework.

The Shift:

1. Models expected to reach “High” bio-risk tier - OpenAI anticipates future successors to its o3 model will reach dangerous biological reasoning levels. These capabilities could include predicting chemical reactions or designing lab experiments, both highly dual-use.
   

2. Multi-layered safety stack now live -  The company now trains models to reject bio-hazardous requests, uses live detection systems, and deploys policy enforcements, including bans and law enforcement alerts. All this is paired with dedicated human review teams and monitoring.
   

3. Red teams stress-test the entire system - OpenAI works with expert red teamers in biology and AI to simulate real-world misuse. Teams try to bypass model safeguards as malicious actors would.
   

4. Biodefense efforts extend beyond models -  A July summit will gather researchers and governments to discuss dual-use risks and coordinate on countermeasures. OpenAI is also supporting diagnostic development and policy-level access systems for trusted institutions.

OpenAI’s layered safeguards and government collaboration are an important signal, but this blog makes one thing clear: the next phase of frontier models will require global-scale biosecurity innovation to stay ahead of the curve.

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📉Quick Shifts

📹 YouTube is adding Veo 3, Google’s high-quality AI video generator, to Shorts this summer, promising audio-visual clips from text prompts, though access may require a paid AI Pro or Ultra plan.

🧠 Meta is reportedly in talks to bring on AI investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, co-founder of Ilya Sutskever’s SSI, to support Alexandr Wang’s superintelligence division and boost its AI ambitions.

🎥 Perplexity has launched video generation capabilities using Google’s Veo 3, allowing users to create AI-generated videos with audio simply by tagging @AskPerplexity

🫀 Mass General Brigham has unveiled AI-CAC, an AI tool that scans chest CT images to detect calcium deposits, a key early sign of heart disease, faster and more accurately than before.

That’s all for today’s edition see you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!

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